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| name=Hugh Maxwell Wallis​ ​

| name=Hugh Maxwell Wallis​ ​

(Physician, publisher, and mayor of Houma, Louisiana)​

(Physician, publisher, and mayor<br> of Houma, Louisiana)​

| birth_date=November 12, 1836​​

| birth_date=November 12, 1836​​

| birth_place=Kent County, [[Maryland]], USA​​

| birth_place=Kent County, [[Maryland]], USA​​

Hugh and Hannah Brooks Wright Maxwell}}

Hugh and Hannah Brooks Wright Maxwell}}

'''Hugh Maxwell Wallis'' (November 12, 1836 &ndash; December 23, 1903) was a [[physician]], publisher, and [[politician]] from Houma in Terrebonne Parish, [[Louisiana]].

'''Hugh Maxwell Wallis'' (November 12, 1836 &ndash; December 23, 1903) was a [[physician]], [[newspaper]] [[publisher]], and [[politician]] from Houma in Terrebonne Parish in south Louisiana, sixty miles west of [[New Orleans]].

Wallis was born in Kent County, [[Maryland]], the son of Hugh Wallis and the former Hannah Brooks Wright. He was educated at Jefferson Medical College in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], from which he graduated in 1860. That same year, he married the former Mary Howard Price, a native of Natchez, [[Mississippi]], and a  daughter of Dr. Isaac Mitchell Price and the former Louise C. Howard. The couple had twelve children, one of whom died at the age of one year.<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-w/|title=Wallis, Hugh Maxwell|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 23, 2020}}</ref>  

Wallis was born in Kent County, [[Maryland]], the son of Hugh Wallis and the former Hannah Brooks Wright. He was educated at Jefferson Medical College in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], from which he graduated in 1860. That same year, he married the former Mary Howard Price, a native of Natchez, [[Mississippi]], and a  daughter of Dr. Isaac Mitchell Price and the former Louise C. Howard. The couple had twelve children, one of whom died at the age of one year.<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-w/|title=Wallis, Hugh Maxwell|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 23, 2020}}</ref>